The Concept of Double Jeopardy: Background. The double jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution prohibits the government from prosecuting individuals more than one time for a single offense and from imposing more than one punishment for a single offense. It provides that No person shall ...
For other uses, see The First Men in the Moon (disambiguation). The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance published in 1901 by the English author H. G. Wells, who called it one of his fantastic stories. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor.
A facet of the Cold War was the space race. The Apollo program was an aggressive push to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon, followed about 20 minutes later by Buzz Aldrin. An estimated 600 million people watched the moon landing.